Connecting with your Audience: Focusing on "Empathy and Respect"
Professor Robb Willer, in his TEDTalk, argues that those who "craft a message that reflects their opponents' moral values are more likely to open minds". The more polarized society becomes, the more people struggle to have productive discourse about divisive subject matter. To that end, we ask ourselves the following essential questions:
How do you discuss debatable issues in a productive way?
How can you prepare to persuade an audience with substantially different ideas from you?
Click on the image below to open the lesson for January 30 & January 31:
Example Text Set for Group Activity
Within this table you will find information from a variety of sources - click all the tabs to see the entire text set. Please be sure to follow the directions (in today's slide deck) and collaborate with your trio to complete this activity and reflection.
Please note: There is a great deal of information linked in the text set. Your group will not have enough time to read everything word-for-word; it is okay to scan some of the materials, just to get a sense of the viewpoints outlined within each resource within this text set. Portions of the information within this Text Set are biased, so please keep that in mind as you review the sources.
Background Knowledge - Overview / Reference Article AND Timeline
Overview and Reference sources -- topic overviews and timelines, in the form of a reference sources (think encyclopedia) -- enable you to construct an understanding of the topic in an unbiased fashion. You are also able to learn subject specific vocabulary and hone future searches.
Reading Goals: Learn about the rights to privacy of teenagers, specifically relating to privacy at home (with a connection to online privacy).
Overview Article: Read and discuss the following overview article, linked from the databases. (Note: Use the Database Passwords to view from home). "Teens and Privacy" - Gale Opposing Viewpoints, general reference article for overview.
News & Editorial
Consider the date of publication and the media outlet when reading news and editorial articles. While news articles shouldn't be biased, these days they are often skewed.
Reading Goals: Learn about the arguments, specifically relating to teenage privacy - at home, including online behaviors. Divide and conquer the articles by collaborating with your group.
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Audio
As you investigate the information below, please note some of the recordings are lengthy. You will not have time to listen to everything today.
Stats and Data Sources
Open the following links to explore the graphics & data:
Caption: "Dad, I can read my own fake news on the internet now!"
"Cartoon." New York Times Upfront, vol. 150, no. 12, 23 Apr. 2018, p. 24. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A540902268/OVIC?u=jwrobinson_e&sid=OVIC&xid=d78891fd. Accessed 20 Apr. 2021.
"Cartoon: Renew the USA Patriot Act." National Security, edited by David M. Haugen, Greenhaven Press, 2007. Opposing Viewpoints. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ2210085078/OVIC?u=jwrobinson_e&sid=OVIC&xid=81e1fd1f. Accessed 21 Jan. 2020.
Cartoon: Facebook Spying. ProQuest, Ann Arbor, 2018. sirsissuesresearcher, https://explore.proquest.com/sirsissuesresearcher/document/2257333277?accountid=2174.
Face++ Chinese Facial Recognition Technology. ProQuest, Ann Arbor, 2018. sirsissuesresearcher, https://explore.proquest.com/sirsissuesresearcher/document/2257487411?accountid=2174.
Created for Robinson Secondary Library by K. Reakes Smith.